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/ˈsɜr kəm ˌspɛkt /
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pensive

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  • pensive  /ˈpɛn sɪv/ ?  deeply or seriously thoughtful

    pensive meaning(s)  Add to My List

    1. (adj) deeply or seriously thoughtful
    2. (adj) showing pensive sadness
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    Synonym(s)

    brooding, broody

    pensive usage(s) Create your Own

    1. Sometimes pensive, sometimes boastful, sometimes displaying a rare humility, the presidential candidate made a final pitch to his followers.
    2. The Traders on the floor of the Stock Exchange looked pensive when the market opened after the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that one million jobs have been shed.
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  • pensively  in a pensive manner
  • pensiveness  persistent morbid meditation on a problem
  • penstemon  large genus of subshrubs or herbs having showy blue or purple or red or yellow…
  • penstemon barbatus  plant of southwestern United States having long open clusters of…
  • penstemon centranthifolius  plant with bright red tubular flowers in long narrow…
  • penstemon cyananthus  erect plant with blue-violet flowers in rings near tips of stems;…
  • penstemon davidsonii  mat-forming plant with blue and lavender flowers clustered on…
  • penstemon deustus  stems in clumps with cream-colored flowers; found from Washington…
  • penstemon dolius  low plant with light blue and violet flowers in short clusters near…
  • penstemon fruticosus  low bushy plant with large showy pale lavender or blue-violet…
  • penstemon linarioides  plant having small narrow leaves and blue-violet flowers in…
  • penstemon newberryi  mat-forming plant with deep pink flowers on short erect leafy…
  • penstemon palmeri  fragrant puffed-up white to reddish-pink flowers in long narrow…
  • penstemon parryi  erect stems with pinkish-lavender flowers in long interrupted clusters;…
  • penstemon rupicola  one of the West's most beautiful wildflowers; large brilliant pink…
  • penstemon rydbergii  plant with whorls of small dark blue-violet flowers; Washington…
  • penstemon serrulatus  whorls of deep blue to dark purple flowers at tips of erect…
  • penstemon whippleanus  wine and lavender to purple and black flowers in several clusters…
  • penstock  regulator consisting of a valve or gate that controls the rate of water flow through…
  • pent  /ˈpɛnt/ ?  closely confined
  • pent-up  characterized by or showing the suppression of impulses or emotions
  • pentacle  a star with 5 points; formed by 5 straight lines between the vertices of a pentagon…
  • pentad  /ˈpɛn tæd/ ?  the cardinal number that is the sum of four and one
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